Delegates

If you’re serving as your board’s delegate at the WSSDA General Assembly, use the information below to prepare and participate as effectively as possible.

For 2025, delegates will need to use Zoom to speak and a web browser to request to speak, vote, or other actions.

Technical Support and Tips

Questions or help requests should go to assembly@wssda.org. If during the assembly, include your phone number so staff can resolve your question promptly.

Prior to the event, make sure you have the latest version of Zoom and a web browser installed. General recommendations include:

  1. Use a laptop or desktop. A larger screen makes it much easier to manage
    the Zoom window (for viewing and addressing the assembly) and the
    browser window (for voting, requesting to speak, and other actions).
  2. Use the Google Chrome web browser, if possible. In testing, the voting
    platform seemed to perform best in Chrome or Safari. Microsoft Edge did
    not work as smoothly.
  3. In the voting platform, selecting an action twice, like “Request to Speak,”
    deactivates your first request. Think of it like a power switch. Click once to
    switch on and click again to switch off.

Voting Credentials

Every school board chair/president and legislative representative on record with WSSDA will receive an email with two links for their board’s participation in the assembly:

  1. a unique delegate Zoom link
  2. a unique voting platform link

The links are unique for each board, but they can be shared within a board so different members can take turns acting as the delegate.

Sharing the Credentials

Before giving the delegate role to another member of your board, do this:

  1. Leave/close the Zoom webinar/app. If you don’t, the next person won’t be
    able to sign in as a delegate.
  2. Close your browser window so that you don’t stay in the voting platform.

In Zoom Webinar

After submitting your request to speak in the voting platform, Zoom is where you’ll address the assembly when your turn comes. Delegates must be in the Zoom webinar to speak. Also, viewing the broadcast any other way will have a time delay that could impeded voting. You must use the Zoom link provided to your board chair and legislative representative.

  1. When you request to speak, you’ll be promoted to “panelist.” (This may cause the Zoom window to momentarily vanish and reappear.)
  2. Once promoted, you can unmute and turn on your camera.
  3. When finished speaking, moderators will demote you back to “viewer.”

In Your Web Browser

Voting will happen in the web-based platform, called VVoter. Also, here are the actions you can select after clicking the Speak button:

  • Speak Pro
  • Move to Call the Question
  • Speak Con
  • Other Motion
  • Point of Order
  • Move to Withdraw my Motion
  • Move to Reconsider
  • 2nd Current Motion